Down In The Groove
by Bob Dylan

Down In The Groove by Bob Dylan
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 34,542nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
52/100 (from 110 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (416th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (4,203rd)
Award Best albums of all time (34,542nd)

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Bob Dylan bestography

Down In The Groove is ranked 60th best out of 80 albums by Bob Dylan on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Bob Dylan is Highway 61 Revisited which is ranked number 29 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 25,609.

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Down In The Groove
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Down In The Groove

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Down In The Groove rankings summary
Overall rank: 34,542nd | 1980s rank: 4,203rd | 1988 rank: 416th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 48 minutes ago).

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Average Rating: 
52/100 (from 110 votes)
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From 08/25/2022 02:55 | #288905
Not much to say ~ a poor quality album that I would not recommend to anyone (despite being a Dylan fan for more than 50 years). The only saving grace is 'Silvio' - which is a song I really like.
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From 03/29/2016 16:11 | #162928
Oh dear. This is really the lowest of the low. This has got to be Dylan's worst album. It's a flimsy attempt at? I don't know what. The cover of Shenandoah is quite nice, but in truth, there's nothing really to save this album unlike previous album, knocked out loaded. At least that had the wonderful Brownsville girl to get as close to redeeming it as it possibly could. No such luck here. Awful.
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From 03/28/2014 02:59 | #107867
This probably the weakest album in Dylan's studio discography.
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